Test missiles fired fromCaliforniaaspart of the “StarWarsII” missile-defenceprogramme regularly plunge spectacularly onto thelagoonfloor, to be retrievedforscientificanalysis.
If Owen was the spearhead who struck terror into Argentina's defence, then he must share star billing with the man who has been the understudy so often for club and country.
It is the only place on earth where, under the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the United States was allowed to test its strategic interceptor missiles, a key component of President Bush's missile-defence programme, sometimes known as Star Wars II.
Mr Putin is expected to urge Mr Blair to refuse to allow the US to modernise missile-tracking radar stations in the UK if the White House decides to go ahead with a new missile defence system dubbed "son of Star Wars".